We are having to catch up really quickly
"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber
hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! which means that if you buy artists' music today, we get all the proceeds w/o them taking a cut. here is my previous band Bitesize. if you like what you hear, you can buy our entire discography (36 songs) for a mere $10.40, pls give it a listen! bitesize.bandcamp.com
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
the gambling epidemic is genuinely so real like sports are entirely gambling now video games are gambling toys are gambling they're still trying to push crypto somehow which is like if money was gambling
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
The Romans conquering and digesting Ancient Greece really is a case of my favorite historical phenomenon, "the homophobic gays have defeated the gay homophobes"
I've said this before, but it makes me insane that in an age of human civilization when the ultra-rich have hoarded over half of all wealth, the go-to visual shorthand for depictions of gluttony is still "fat"
What the last two centuries have taught us is that capitalism is a system which exists to create and maintain oligarchy, with an oligarch defined as one who steals/hoards resources on a grand scale while blatantly transgressing social norms in the most disgusting ways imaginable to prove their power
Renee Good's last words
"I'm not mad at you," the 37-year-old mom told the ICE agent who murdered her, per new cell phone footage released Friday. Then he shot her in the face three times and called her a "fuckin' bitch."
Always read @lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/renee-good...
When juries started refusing to indict or convict activists on bogus charges, DHS shifted very quickly to shooting activists in the face. That is not a coincidence.
This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes.
If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
Oh, it goes deeper than that. The Christmas tree is actually a folk memory of the two trees of Valinor, whose pure light was captured in the Silmarils (Silmaril -> ilmaril -> irmarel -> ermarel -> ornamel > ornament)
There's no evidence that Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick is undergoing a gender transition, despite claims circulating on social media. Here's how the baseless rumor spread. 👇
www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...
Ulrike Reichhold of Cineric, Inc., one of the foremost film restoration laboratories in the world, at her workbench inspecting a negative prior to repairing and scanning. Photo by Simon Lund, courtesy Cineric.
A still from Sunset Boulevard, Joe Gillis (William Holden) seated beside a standing Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), who holds her hand up as she stands bathed in the light of a projector
Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton, flayed and bloody, sitting against a tiled wall in a pool of his own blood, I AM IN HELL HELP ME written in blood on the wall beside him
The burning shack in the desert from David Lynch's Lost Highway
Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence.
BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t exist in a vacuum. He implicates the ruling class, the way they do business, and the whole capitalist system.
www.jphilll.com/p/epstein-im...
"American prisons are full of earnest attempts at redemption."
"If [Grace] Pinson's legal tenacity makes her unusual, the harm she has suffered in federal prison does not. Life in prison is relentlessly dangerous, and for transgender people especially so. ... Not only are they at risk for extortion and assault, they are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse."
Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data
"The prisoners who missed their habeas deadlines have sometimes forfeited powerful claims. ... [W]hile the law guarantees that indigent death row inmates have a court-appointed attorney in federal habeas corpus proceedings, it does not stipulate that the attorney must be competent."
"[P]rison journalism is often thwarted by both threatened and actual retaliation against journalists and their sources ... [W]hen retaliation doesn't work, censorious officials often take steps to restrict, burden, or even altogether ban communication between the press and incarcerated people."
Dans une semaine exactement aura lieu la première sortie officielle du Front Antifasciste Populaire! Notre collectif répète depuis longtemps que la lutte antifasciste doit investir les milieux de vie et de travail. C'est ce que cherche à faire le Front Pop!!! www.facebook.com/events/24876...
"As gusts topped 100 miles per hour and seawater surged inland, houses never built for such conditions floated away or crumbled. ... [P]eople crawled through the windows of flooding houses and waded in darkness and howling winds toward their neighbors, only to find their homes gone, too."
photo of a mockingbird resting on barbed wire with the words "TFSR 11-16-25 | Updates on the Prairieland Case (with NLG and DFW Support Committee)
@nlg.org Director of Mass Defense, Xavier de Janon, and members of the DFW Support Committee speak about the Prairieland Case and the Trump administrations ongoing threats against the left and "Antifa"
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...
We need regulation on unlicensed therapy bots like yesterday.
"More than 5 million U.S. citizens are unable to vote in elections because of felony convictions. ... [T]he U.S. is one of just a handful of countries that restricts voting after someone has completed their sentences."